My God is Biggest
I was speaking at a conference and had to rent a car to
get from the airport to the conference site an hour or so
away. I rented a squirt of a car. The lady at the car rental
desk asked if I'd like an upgrade. I answered, "Nah." After
all, I'm five feet tall. What would I do with extra leg
room? Essentially, I have no legs.
She handed me the keys and I made my way out to the lot. I
found my numbered spot, but in the place where my little
car-ette was supposed to be parked, there sat the biggest
Lincoln I've ever seen. Dinky car on major steroids. I
wondered for a minute if the thing had eaten my little car.
Either someone had given me an unexpected upgrade or the
car-ette had glandular problems like nobody's business.
The key worked, so I put my luggage into a trunk big enough
to hold a revival meeting. I slid onto the leather seat and
couldn't help but smile. Mind you, I'm used to my minivan at
home. Not only are all the seats made of man-made,
mega-processed, artificial materials, but most of those
man-made materials are held together with half-eaten suckers
and last season's molding soccer socks. The mega-car had
leather. Leather! I was sitting on a car seat that used to
be a cow. I snickered to myself, "Got car?"
I loved the control panel: lights, knobs, buttons and
digital gages; I think I could have ordered a cheeseburger
if I could have figured out what some of those things were
for. I felt like the Captain of the Starship Enterprise. I
finally found the right controls to put it in gear. Engage.
The funny thing was that I asked "small." I got big. Isn't
that how God often responds to us? Even though our faith may
be small and our sin disproportionately big, His love, grace
and forgiveness are even bigger.
God forgives big. He loves big. He is big. And He gives us
life in the biggest way. It's a turbo-charged life with
every option added in. Jesus said, "I have come that they
may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly."
(John 10:10, NKJ)
As we live in His big love, we learn more and more that we
can trust Him in the biggest way. We learn we can ask as big
as we can think- even bigger- and He loves to answer. "Now
to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all
that we ask or think, according to the power that works in
us, to Him be glory." (Ephesians 3:20-21, NKJ) He loves to
answer BIG.
I wonder what would have happened if I had asked "big" at
the car rental place? Would I have gotten a TANK?
Contributed by Rhonda Rhea
rrhea@juno.com